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DPI COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
Two hands holding with red paint on the arms.
Photo: Cydney Blitzer from the project An Adoptee Story
 
SENIOR SHOW TWO 2021

MARCH 4 - APRIL 5

Gabriela Aleksova, Melody Ball, Cydney Blitzer, Pema Dolkar, Chloé Dugourd, Muhammet Gencoglu, Kavya Krishna, Meghan Marshall, Clara Jeanne Reed, Brian Uchiyama, & Bensonviews
 
Our second of three exhibitions featuring the 2021 Senior Thesis projects are now on view in the windows of the Kimmel Center on W. 3rd Street and LaGuardia Place. Exhibition Info.
DPI Student Spotlight
Spike Lee CLose up. Film Director Spike Lee.
 
DPI Student Eric Hart Jr photographed Academy Award Winner Spike Lee for the Critic Choice Awards and Dior. 
Artsist Misha JapanwalaDPI student Zayira Ray's work is featured in Vogue Magazine. Read the article "Designer Misha Japanwala Is Never Fully Dressed Without a Breastplate". 

"Misha reached out to me to shoot this project and it truly felt like divine timing— there is nothing more energizing and fulfilling than documenting an artist who I admire so deeply." Read it here. 
DPI Faculty & Alums
Woman in bathtub giving birth with two helpers on either side. DPI Alum Alice Proujansky wrote and photographed a story in the NY Times. "Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births". Some mothers are seeking alternatives, worried about Covid-19 and racial inequities in health care. Read it here. View her website here.
Sinking Body in swimming poolDPI Alum Joey Solomon is featured in MUSÉE Magazine. "The photographs taken of Solomon’s stay in the hospital are haunting. Here, he demonstrates not only the fragility of human life, but the fragility of human bodies as well". Read it here.  
Image in newspaper through glasses. DPI Professor Lorie Novak and DPI Alum Diane Meyer are featured in a video about School Photos and Their Afterlives, an exhibition curated by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer. Watch it here.
Woman in wheelchair in the snowDPI Alum Jonno Rattman's work is featured in The Atlantic article "Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID".

"Two young women with truly debilitating long Covid symptoms and four clinicians searching for answers in data and deep empathy at Mt. Sinai for a new and sobering article by Meghan O’Rourke." Read it here.
Various images of three people wearing multiple outfits that change how they may be perceived. DPI Professor Bayeté Ross Smith's work is featured in Civic Life Today Magazine. 

" Our Kind of People is an initiative that examines perception based on appearance and deconstructs how clothing, race, gender, and class signifiers affect our daily interactions and social systems." Read it here.
Tisch Professors on ZoomCigar in glass box.










Tisch celebrated the retirement of DPI Professors Tom Drysdale and Paul Owen. The DPI community thanks you for your years of service!
Events of Interest

Wednesday, March 17, 1 pm EST. DPI Chair Deborah Willis in Conversation with DPI Alum Hank Willis Thomas. Join the Instagram Live here @WideAwakes.


Photography holding camera. Wednesday, March 17, at 2:30 pm EST. Former DPI Faculty Member Philip Perkis is doing an online talk about his work and career. This is a prelude to “The Magic in The Seeing: Philip Perkis and His Creative Legacy”. An exhibition slated to open in September in NYC. Learn more here.
Artist Glo JacksonSaturday, March 20, Photoville Edu Lab: Creating with Community Session featuring 2020 Tisch DPI Future Imagemaker Glo Jackson speaking about their project Spectrum: Diversity Within The Disabled.  Register here.
Sunday, March 21st, 12PM EST. BDC Photobook Conversations: June Canedo de Souza. Please join Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO)'s Executive Director Odilia Romero and artist June Canedo de Souza, as they discuss their new project Diža' No'ole, a book created in an effort to support undocumented Indigenous women in Los Angeles. This event will be held on Instagram Live.

Tuesday, March 23, 6:00 pm EST. Brooklyn Resists, Act One: Suffrage, Abolition, and the Untold Stories of Black Women Leaders Jami Floyd, Senior Editor for Race & Justice Unit at New York Public Radio and the Legal Editor in the WNYC Newsroom, moderates this conversation with historian Prithi Kanakamedala, curator of the exhibition  Brooklyn Abolitionists: In Pursuit of Freedom at the former Brooklyn Historical Society, Michelle Duster, Ida B. Wells’ great-granddaughter and author of the new book Ida B. The Queen, and others. Learn more here.
 

Wednesday, March 24, 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST. Black Futures -A book talk with editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, 370J Project and Africana Studies/Department of Social and Cultural Analysis-NYU. Register here.

Wednesday, March 24, 7 pm EST. The Sound She Saw: Ming Smith in Conversation with Greg Tat. Honoring the publication of Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (Aperture, 2020), this conversation brings Ming Smith, the first female member of the Kamoinge Workshop, into dialogue with critic and musician Greg Tate, one of her book’s contributors. Presenting four decades of Smith’s work, the publication celebrates her enduring vision and ongoing contributions to the medium of photography. The conversation is introduced by Rujeko Hockley, the assistant curator at the Whitney. Learn more here.

Wednesday, March 24 at 7 pm EST. The Sound She Saw: Ming Smith in Conversation with Greg Tate. Register Here. 

Friday, March 26, 5:00 pm PST/ 8:00 pm EST. Picturing Intimacy. Alum Janna Ireland, Catherine Opie, Alum Paul Mpagi Sepuya. A panel discussion with three Los Angeles-based artists who explore bodies, intimacy, and domestic interiors in their respective practices in conjunction with Janna Ireland’s exhibition. RSVP.
What We're Reading & Watching

Horse back riders staring at camera. Black and White image. LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness

LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Chicago-based artist whose photographs and videos champion unsung members of the working class, was furious. She decided to embark upon a series devoted to the autoworkers who were contending with the possible loss of their plant in Ohio; they would be the subject of an upcoming exhibition and a published photo essay. Read it here.

Whose Migrant Mother was this? Whose Migrant Mother was this?

Dorthea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the world? Guest host John Green introduces you to Florence Owens Thompson, her family, and her story. Watch Here. 

Black woman standing in a brown room.
“How the Studio Museum in Harlem Transformed the Art World Forever”

 In Harper's Bazaar Salamishah Tillet profiles the Harlem’s Studio Museum and the Black women artists whose work has been shown there over the years. Read more here.

COLLIER SCHORR in Musee Magazine. 

Musee Magazine republishes an interview with Collier Schorr discussing her approach to portraiture and fashion projects. Read it here.

Barbara Ess (1948–2021)

Barbara Ess, a boundary-pushing photographer, musician, and writer has died of cancer. Ess was most widely known for her large-scale photographs made using a pinhole camera, producing blurred, haunting images that evoked variously dreamy anxiety, shattered romanticism, and the stuttering disquiet of the late twentieth century. “I think of my work as an investigation and it’s always concerned with the same question,” she told the LA Times.“Exactly what is the true nature of reality?” —  Art Forum. Read more at The New York Times.
The Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. DPI offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a broad grounding in the liberal arts. Our department embraces multiple perspectives and approaches which encourages critical engagement both in and outside of the classroom.

 
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